"Let's hit our botnet by using HTTP requests with a constant string to a small group of static addresses."
Well done, botnet writers. That'll help you evade people watching your traffic for sure!
Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network's command and control servers. A varying cast of around 300 genuine (mostly smaller) websites is at the receiving end of queries from zombie drones infected with the …